Fear of Crime and Victimization

Tseloni, Andromachi; Zarafonitou, Christina

doi:10.1177/1477370808095123

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“…Andreescu, 2010;Hanslmaier, 2013;Skogan & Maxfield, 1981;Tseloni & Zarafonitou, 2008). The results of such studies suggest that people who became victims of crime or those who were victimized indirectly by knowing someone (friends, relatives, colleagues, neighbours etc.)…”

Section: Correlates Of Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since there exists a discrepancy between fear of crime and victimization, fears of certain social groups were labelled as "paradoxical". For example, women are consistently found to declare greater fear of crime than men (Box, Hale, & Andrews, 1988;Jackson & Stafford, 2009;LaGrange & Ferraro, 1989;Russo, Roccato, & Vieno, 2013;Tseloni & Zarafonitou, 2008) although it is the men who are, according to official police statistics, more frequently victimized (Hale, 1996). It is assumed that women are in general more vulnerable to crime and sensitive to potential risk of victimization.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Krulichová¹

2018

Auc Philosophica Et Historica

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Subjective well-being is usually studied with respect to marital and occupational status, income or subjective health. Conversely, research examining the relationship between this phenomenon and crime related factors is still relatively limited. This study therefore aims to extent the current knowledge in this area. Using data from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey for the Czech Republic, in which 2386 respondents participated, we conduct a hierarchical regression analysis to find out to what extent victimization experience and fear of crime influence life satisfaction and happiness of Czechs. The results of the analysis reveal a direct relationship between fear of crime and subjective well-being. On the contrary, victimization affects life satisfaction and happiness indirectly via the fear of crime. Surprisingly, a decrease in life satisfaction is greater for fearful men than fearful women, whereas there are no gender differences regarding the fear of crime -happiness link.

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Section: Correlates Of Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Correlates Of Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Krulichová¹

2018

Auc Philosophica Et Historica

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“…Although social coherence can reduce the perceived risk (Wilcox et al, 2003;Rountree & Land, 1996), but most of the conducted studies (Cohen et al, 2000;Perkins et al, 1992;Tseloni & Zarafonitou, 2008) indicate that there is a relationship between incivility experiences, victimization, and fear of crime. Thus, fear of crime might decrease the usability of built environment for a part of society (Glasson & Cozens, 2011) while it could be high in particular places that are not necessarily dangerous or distinguishable with a high level of crime incidences (P. J. Brantingham, P. L. Brantingham, & Molumby, 1977;Vrij & Winkel, 1991).…”

Section: Urban Crime: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Amentioning

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Safe Place by Design: Urban Crime in Relation to Spatiality and Sociality

Kamalipour

Faizi²,

Memarian³

2014

CUS

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Different conceptions of crime in design practice, sociology, environmental psychology, and criminology indicate an extensive articulation of crime in relation to the built environment and urban form in the city. Five decades of different studies on urban crime, crime prevention through environmental design, and fear of crime indicate an implicit and gradual movement from deterministic to possibilistic propositions in exploring the relationships between urban crime and environmental design both in theory and practice. Hence, the study firstly conducts a critical review on the issue of urban crime in relation to urban design, planning, and architecture disciplines. Categorizing different researches of urban crime in terms of their propositions and various dimensions of crime prevention through environmental design, the study proceeds to discuss the issue of crime in relation to spatiality and sociality in the city. Moreover, grounding the issue of safety in the context of place theory and avoiding deterministic and free-will approaches to urban crime, the study advocates for the necessity of mapping urban morphology, functional attributes, and spatial patterns in relation to socio-economic condition and demographic profiling. Thus, giving primacy to spatiality in relation to sociality and criticizing the absence of morphological mapping of urban crime, the study denotes the multi-scalar and multi-dimensional attributes of urban crime in relation to morphological, functional, perceptual, and social dimensions of a safe place by design.

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“…Indeed, decades of empirical studies in the international criminology literature have revealed a heightened fear of crime by members of the public, including legal decision-makers (e.g. Box, Hale, & Andrews, 1988;Tseloni & Zarafonitou, 2008). This development may culminate in negative attitudes towards criminal offenders, perhaps regardless of their background (Gakhal & Brown, 2011).…”

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Determination of Competency to Stand Trial (Fitness to Plead): An Exploratory Study in Hong Kong

Adjorlolo

Chan

2016

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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Competency to stand trial (CST) is related to the defendant's capacity to engage in a satisfactory level of participation in the court process. While the extant studies focus mainly on assessment-related issues such as assessment methods, guidelines for competency evaluations, and quality of competency evaluations, another area of considerable interest is the indicators of CST as well as legal decision-making relating to CST. This study canvasses some proposed indicators of CST from the literature and examines whether these psycholegal abilities are relevant to finding a defendant incompetent to stand trial. Secondly, the study investigates factors likely to influence legal decision-making in competency determination. Using a cross-sectional survey and a self-report methodology, 197 participants from a legal Juris Doctoral course responded to measures of CST, punitiveness, and legal authoritarianism, anti-authoritarianism and egalitarianism. The results show that the majority of the items canvassed from the literature are considered relevant in finding the defendant incompetent to stand trial. With respect to factors influencing competent decisionmaking, females are more likely to regard defendants as incompetent. Additionally, participants with strong punishment-oriented attitudes (i.e. legal authoritarianism and punitiveness) are significantly more likely to find the defendant competent to stand trial, as opposed to those high in non-punishment-oriented attitudes (i.e. anti-authoritarianism and egalitarianism). The study concludes that biased legal decision-making can occur regardless of the background of the decision-makers, in this case participants undergoing legal training. The findings are discussed and implications of the study are proposed.

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Fear of Crime and Victimization

Cited by 111 publications

References 25 publications

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Safe Place by Design: Urban Crime in Relation to Spatiality and Sociality

Determination of Competency to Stand Trial (Fitness to Plead): An Exploratory Study in Hong Kong

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